DECLAN and Joe Miley of Knockcroghery, Co Roscommon can lay claim to being the country’s top sheep breeders after showing the champions of both the Suffolk and Belclare breeds last Sunday at the National Livestock Show in Tullamore.

LET’S START in Ger Doyle’s office. Busy place, even with the phone off the hook. The mobile still rings and there are Leinster Open Championships coming up, piles of paperwork sitting across the desk, the OCI want to organise a meeting this weekend, change the dates of a planned trip to Athens, more headaches and there are still kids to be coached in New Ross, still seconds to be clipped off times.